April 15, 2013 - The bomb was placed on the ground on Boylston Street, outside the Forum restaurant. It detonated around 12 seconds after the first blast, which was near the finish line.
Flickr Photo by: Rebecca Hildreth

I know what some of my readers are thinking: that I want Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to spend the rest of his life in prison not because it's the appropriate sentence for him but rather because I am opposed to the death penalty (see my articles here). Let me say that my opposition to capital punishment has nothing to do in this particular case. Let me explain why.

If there were three choices of punishment for this low-life piece of crap:

1. Life in Prison without Parole [LWOP].


2. Execution.


3. Slow roasting over a low flame with occasional basting of pig lard; shoving salt into pouches of skin sliced open with a rusty serrated box-cutter of the type used on 9/11; and his mouth stuffed with bacon-bits during his screams; all the while administering drugs to keep him from passing out until he dies.

I would pick number 3, notwithstanding my objections to the death penalty. However, given only the first two choices, I would pick LWOP because the death penalty would result in a martyrdom for this scumbag which Tsarnaev may very well much desire. One may ask what the residents of Boston themselves want: Most do not desire execution. Indeed only about ⅓ wish the death penalty upon him, according to a Boston Globe poll last September.

Execution would be too easy. When we finally elect a President unafraid to confront the Muslim threat to civilization and acts on it, it would be a fitting punishment for Tsarnaev to spend the rest of his life watching the cult of Islam slowly being eradicated in the world.